A Technical Scan consists of one or more technical criteria. These criteria can include everything from the exchange a stock trades on to whether it has just had a MACD crossover. The criteria can be joined together with logical “ANDs” and/or “ORs” to form more complex scans. Ultimately these criteria are checked against every single ticker symbol in our database automatically to find ticker symbols that meet the criteria.

Once all of the symbols in our database have been checked, we show you the scan results: a list of all the symbols that met your requirements. You can review the results, and save or download them for later analysis.

StockCharts Extra and Pro members can create and run their own custom technical scans with whatever technical criteria they want. We provide two different workbenches for creating custom technical scans - our Standard Scan Workbench and our Advanced Scan Workbench.

Scanning Documentation

Check out our detailed scanning documentation below to learn more about all aspects of scanning.

Getting Started

Introduction to Scanning - the basics of scanning in one quick article. What is scanning? How does the Scan Engine work? What different ways can you scan?

Planning Scans - best practices for deciding what to include in your scan